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It’s often been said, that if Major League Baseball hadn’t naturally experienced the conditions necessary for the home run explosion in 1998, they would have had to create them. The historic home run chase between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, captivated the nation and made fans forget all about the wildly unpopular strike of 1994.

VENICE, Ill. — A teen sports standout featured in a Sports Illustrated article about young athletes who would rule the future of sports has been fatally shot.

Zuhdi Jasser described Sports Illustrated’s featuring of a burkini-wearing model as left-wing “insanity” glorifying “honor culture.”

For the first time, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue has featured a model in full burkini and hijab.

A former ESPN writer has penned a new book in which he claims that President Trump is a notorious cheat, when it comes to the game of golf.

Sports Illustrated dove straight into controversial political waters this week, by tapping Christine Blasey Ford to introduce its 2018 Inspiration of the Year Award.

Swimsuit model Mara Martin is being praised for breastfeeding her baby while walking on the catwalk during the latest Sports Illustrated fashion show this week.

After the NFL changed their policy, requiring players to stand and “show respect” for the national anthem, the conventional wisdom held that fear of a strong reaction from President Trump was a major factor in forcing the NFL to enact the new rule.

A former Dallas Mavericks employee has penned an essay published this week by Sports Illustrated, claiming that owner Mark Cuban was aware of the sexual harassment taking place in the organization’s front office.

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and PGA golfer Paige Spiranac went toe-to-toe with former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry on Twitter, over the ’empowerment’ of women posing nude in SI’s annual swimsuit edition.

Sports Illustrated magazine is set to honor the ongoing #MeToo movement in its annual Swimsuit issue this year by featuring its first-ever nude photograph collection.

ESPN host Jemele Hill says she is not sorry for the content of a tweet, in which she called President Trump a “white supremacist.” Instead, her only regret is that she used social media as her platform to do it.

A lot of people are quite pleased that Sports Illustrated decided to give Colin Kaepernick the Muhammad Ali Legacy award. However, after reading one of his tweets sent on Friday night, it’s pretty clear that former governor and current Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee is not among them.

In what has become undoubtedly the most award-winning and star-studded unemployment in the history of unemployment, Colin Kaepernick has won yet another award.

New York Mets starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard took to Twitter to poke the president.

If you make enough predictions, sooner or later one of them will turn out to be right. Sports Illustrated makes a lot of predictions. In 2014 they predicted the Astros would win the World Series in 2017. On Wednesday nigh, that became reality.

Perhaps it’s poetic justice, that the same political movement which coined the phrase, “an inconvenient truth,” seems to constantly be inconvenienced by truth. Such is the case with what’s happening right now Sports Illustrated.

At any other point in history a magazine calling itself Sports Illustrated, putting out a cover which had no sports in it, might seem odd. Then again, few other points in history have been as dumb as 2017.

A reporter for Sports Illustrated was oddly surprised when football fans assumed he was making a political statement by wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey at a recent Bills-Jets game.

President Trump’s trip to hurricane-ravaged Texas, brought out words of praise from some circles, and words of criticism from others. As for the words that came from the sports media circle, well, I’m sure you can guess which category those words fell into.

President Donald Trump pushed back against reports that he called the White House a “dump.”

Former San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick perhaps didn’t work hard enough in game preparation last year, a 49ers source told Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer.

On the heels of ESPN laying off some 100 writers and on-air rate and TV talent, Sports Illustrated announced that they are laying off five of their staffers, including Seth Davis who has been writing for the iconic sports magazine since 1995.

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Public Radio commentator Frank Deford has bid listeners goodbye after 37 years of discussing sports on the network.

Bill Polian has a Super Bowl ring and a bust in Canton. But, evidently that’s not enough. After the former Colts general manager’s recent interview with Sports Illustrated, he seems to be targeting his own wing in the NFL Hall of Fame.

Jay-Z has 99 problems, and apparently Phil Jackson is one.

LeBron James’ transition from owner of one of the best stories in sports history to becoming one of the most thoroughly unlikeable celebrities in America is nearly complete.

NFL ratings crashed this year. Fans bailed on the league for many different reasons. Complaints include fans sick of seeing the national anthem disrespected and officials taking over the game by incessantly calling penalties.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump referenced the NFL’s ratings troubles in a campaign speech on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli looked sizzling in a new photo she posted on Instagram sporting a bikini just three weeks after giving birth to daughter, Liv.

Bruce Jenner triumphantly posed for the cover of Sports Illustrated this week with the gold medal he won at the 1976 Olympics, telling the magazine that he chose to pretend to be a “macho male” at those summer games in Montreal because it was the only “way to convince myself that the woman living inside of me really [wasn’t] living inside me.”

New York sports radio talker Mike Francesa is admittedly no fan of the sport of soccer, and he didn’t let that disdain temper his criticism of Sports Illustrated for spending too many pages covering soccer’s Copa América tournament.

Transgender reality TV star and former Olympian athlete Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner will pose nude with his 1976 gold medal for Sports Illustrated magazine.

Sports Illustrated’s new swimsuit edition has three different covers, and one of them features the first plus-size cover model in the history of the annual issue.

Plus-size model Ashley Graham will make history Monday when she becomes the first size-16 model to cover Sports Illustrated magazine’s vaunted “Swimsuit Issue.”

Sports Illustrated chose tennis superstar Serena Williams as their sportsperson of 2015. It is the first time in 30 years the publication named a female on her own for the award.